Tag: Caspar David Friedrich

The camerafreed the artist from the responsibility of representing the world realistically in art. If someone wanted an accurate portrait or landscape, he would hire a photographer, rather than a painter. Consequently, since the 1860s, painters have tried to represent things that the camera cannot easily capture, such as an impression, an experience, a feeling, movement, light, even the passage of time.

Ironically, some photographers, like me, an Instagramaddict, trespass upon the painterly realm in an attempt to capture these elements that seem exclusive to painting. In this post, I will pay homage to some of the modern, figurative artists from the romanticists onward who have influenced my photos, and in a separate post I will honor the abstract artists who have influenced my photography.